Map: chokepoints and trade lanes
An interactive world map with two layers: 28 maritime chokepoints and 50 curated trade lanes. Use the toggle above the map to switch between them. Click a chokepoint or lane for its page.
Key facts
- Chokepoints shown
- 28
- Trade lanes shown
- 50
Map
Chokepoints and curated trade lanes on a world map. Loads about 250 KB of map code plus a small basemap file.
Chokepoint positions and lane routings are World Freight Monitor's own registry. Methodology.
About this map
Chokepoint markers sit at the coordinates in our registry. Trade lane lines trace each lane's usual routing: from its origin ports, through the chokepoints that routing passes in order, to its destination ports. Between those points each line follows open-water corridors (around capes and through straits rather than across land) and is smoothed into a curve, and Pacific lanes continue across the date line. The curves are our hand-placed illustration of the usual corridor, not a shipping route, traffic separation scheme or surveyed track, and a lane starts and ends at the lead port of its origin and destination groups. The map is a Mercator projection, the standard for nautical charts, over Natural Earth 1:110m country outlines (public domain). Some lanes note in their own page that the chokepoint order is our inference rather than a published routing.
See all chokepoints and all trade lanes as tables, or the methodology for how routings and distances are sourced.